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Daisy Dowling is the Founder and CEO of Workparent, a company that provides advice and solutions to working parents and to the organizations that employ them. Daisy provides high-impact training to employees at all levels on how to effectively address the challenges of working parenthood. In today’s economy and political climate, more parents are either finding that they both need or want to be a part of the workforce.   But, how do you feel in control when you are balancing work and a family life?  Daisy Dowling provides advice and possible solutions for working parents.

Melissa A. Schilling is the Herzog Family Professor of Management at New York University Stern School of Business. Professor Schilling’s research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, video games, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies. If you take a stroll down History Lane you will see many famous names etched in the fine woodwork of human achievements like Einstein, Tesla, and Jobs. If you look at our greatest inventors and innovators, you can find a common thread. In simple language, we would call them strange or even weird in some regard. In her new book, Quirky: The Remarkable Story of the Traits, Foibles, and Genius of Breakthrough Innovators Who Changed the World, Melissa Schilling argues that their weirdness made them who they are.